Do recent kernels allow firmware to load at initrd time?

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 12/20/2007 10:47 AM, Chuck Murnane wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=329511 and
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240105 both appear to
> address failure of the kernel to load firmware in the initrd phase of
> system booting. I can confirm that the second (aic94xx) bug, although it
> results in a failure during boot, if followed by rmmod aic94xx and then
> modprobe aic94xx results in firmware being properly loaded and the
> system able to make use of disks attached to the controller. I can also
> state that the nash find command locates the proper firmware file within
> the initrd file system even though the kernel fails to locate it. This
> takes place on a x86_64 system with both kernel-2.6.23.1-49.fc8 and
> kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8 and mkinitrd-6.0.19-4.fc8 (I modified mkinitrd to
> include the nash find command.)
> 
> My question is: is firmware loading working for anyone with recent
> Fedora kernels or is there some sort of bug in the kernel firmware
> routines exercised only by an initrd file system?
> 

See bug 378651; does the updated mkinitrd mentioned there work?